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  • E14: Ultima Genomics + Element UltraQ

    Spinnin' bases on wafers to do mostly natural SBS


    Chapters:

    - 00:00 Ultima ePCR with beads

    - 07:10 Spinning the wafer, nucleotides, no blocking

    - 14:30 Ultima ppmSeq + Element UltraQ

    - 25:30 How Element UltraQ was born

    - 30:30 snakemake, cromwell, nextflow

    - 36:50 ncRNA


    Ultimas homepage: https://www.ultimagenomics.com/


    Nature paper with the chemistry: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01452-6


    Elements UltraQ chemistry:

    https://www.elementbiosciences.com/cloudbreak-ultraq-enhanced-sequencing-accuracy-when-precision-matters-most


    Snakemake: https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/


    Nextflow: https://www.nextflow.io/docs/latest/index.html


    Cromwell: https://cromwell.readthedocs.io/en/stable/


    Small overview of not all ncRNA types: https://microbenotes.com/types-of-rna/


    Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) – network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email (podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ).

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    Creators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel Rickert

    Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/⁠

    47 min
  • E13: Sequencing by Avidity | Element Biosciences + XLEAP

    Because sometimes a jellyfish prevents quenching


    Chapters:


    01:00 - XLeap update from Illumina

    08:00 - Avidites start, splitting the problems

    13:20 - In-depth comparison to Illumina

    22:00 - Element summary

    23:30 - Bioinformatics tools: Jellyfish, KAT

    25:00 - QuickGen: GWAS


    Illumina about their XLeap: https://www.illumina.com/science/genomics-research/articles/data-quality-q-scores.html

    Sandiegomics about element: https://sandiegomics.com/element-beats-illumina-to-the-200-genome/


    Nature paper about the chemistry: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01750-7


    Jellyfish for k-mer counting: https://github.com/gmarcais/Jellyfish


    GWAS Catalog: very nice data collection: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/diagram


    Correcting population-based GWAS bias: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011242



    Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email (podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ).

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    Attribution:

    Podcast Title: Explain Podcast

    Creators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel Rickert

    Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/⁠

    40 min
  • E12: ONSO | Sequencing by binding

    Now Illuminas IP, previously PacBios, previously OMNIONE...


    Because only one type of nucleotide is not complicated enough


    Chapters:

    01:35 Introducing old problems

    15:30 More Phred, more better

    34:40 QuickGen: genetic testing

    47:40 Bioinformatics tools: samtools


    PacBio ONSO Specs: https://www.pacb.com/wp-content/uploads/Onso-specification-sheet.pdf


    SBB explained by PacBio: https://www.pacb.com/blog/sbb-sequencing/


    Why higher quality is better: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11331594/


    Short read sequencing market heating up: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01632-4


    SBB for visual learners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_mSaNBOVmQ


    Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/)operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email (podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ).

    License Notice

    This podcast including all episodes, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a ⁠⁠⁠⁠Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License⁠⁠⁠⁠.You are free to share, remix, and use this content as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

    Attribution:

    Podcast Title: Explain Podcast

    Creators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel Rickert

    Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/⁠

    55 min
  • Special: Long vs Short reads

    Mixing up long and cheap

    ... soon we need to add "vs mid-reads"

    Chapters:

    00:00:00 Intro

    00:03:30 Florians history

    00:13:50 Q&A Ressources for Bioinformatics

    00:27:00 Long-read-tools.org

    00:35:42 ONT || PacBio

    00:57:00 Storage

    01:09:00 Outro


    Up-to-date, raw prices:https://albertvilella.substack.com/p/march-2024-ngsspecs-update


    Dovetail comparing the two long-read technologies:https://dovetailbiopartners.com/2023/08/10/pacbio-vs-nanopore-unraveling-the-sequencing-odyssey-in-life-sciences/


    Comparing PacBios old CLRs to ONT:https://academic.oup.com/g3journal/article/12/11/jkac192/6651842?login=true


    RNA Performance comparison, wonderful read:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.25.550582v1.full.pdf+html


    Integras 0.02$:https://www.integra-biosciences.com/united-states/en/blog/article/short-read-vs-long-read-sequencing


    Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email (podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ).

    Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903)

    License Notice

    This podcast including all episodes, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a ⁠⁠⁠Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License⁠⁠⁠.You are free to share, remix, and use this content as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

    Attribution:

    Podcast Title: Explain Podcast

    Creators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel Rickert

    Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/⁠

    1 hr 12 min
  • E11: MGI DNA Nanoball sequencing

    Rolling in circles to make DNA yarns


    Chapters:

    00:00 Bioinformatics Upper Crust Tools

    04:04 STAR

    05:00 MGI

    15:00 Daniels first contact

    20:00 Brief Market Overview

    22:30 Short read market

    26:00 DFG High Costs Sequencing Projects Application

    29:20 QuickGen: Introns and Exons

    35:00 Conclusion


    MGI vs Illumina: https://alitheagenomics.com/blog/how-do-rna-seq-results-compare-between-illumina-and-mgi-sequencing-platforms


    Rolling the circle: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568012/pdf/nihms894568.pdf


    MGI vs Illumina legal case:https://www.reuters.com/technology/illumina-ordered-pay-chinese-company-333-million-gene-sequencing-patent-case-2022-05-06/


    The basics of MGIs technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gThcHHh4R0w


    DFG Application:https://www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten-themen/info-wissenschaft/2024/ifw-24-30


    GTL/WGGC: https://www.gtl.hhu.de/wggc


    TSM link http://tsm.gtl.hhu.de/- submit your request and our colleagues will contact you


    Since 2018, West German Genome Center https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany.

    Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive yourfeedback&questions via Email ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ).

    Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903)

    License Notice

    This podcast including all episodes, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a ⁠⁠⁠Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License⁠⁠⁠.You are free to share, remix, and use this content as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

    Attribution:

    Podcast Title: Explain Podcast

    Creators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel Rickert

    Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/⁠

    37 min
  • E10: Genome Mapping

    Who needs all bases anyway?


    Chapters:

    00:00 Phasing

    08:50 Not Sequencing, really

    14:00 Bionano Saphyr Chip

    26:00 Nabsys - going electric

    29:30 Tools available

    39:00 QuickGen with Iuliia: Transposons!


    Links:

    Small explainer by CAP: https://www.cap.org/member-resources/articles/optical-genome-mapping-a-tool-with-significant-potential-from-discovery-to-diagnostics


    What genome mapping can be used for: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/3/398


    Finding SVs with genome mapping: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41408-024-01059-x


    Bionano github repos: https://github.com/search?q=bionano&type=repositories&s=updated&o=desc

    Listen to our podcast and send your feedback to podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com


    Since 2019, West German Genome Center https://wggc.de/ operates as the nextgeneration sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network NGS-CN https://ngs-cn.de/ – network of NGS core facilities in Germany.


    The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Multimediazentrum at Heinrich-Heine University ofDüsseldorf https://www.mmz.hhu.de/ Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility ”West German Genome Center” funded by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen https://www.mkw.nrw/land-foerdert-spitzenzentrum-fuer-genomsequenzierung-nordrhein-westfalen/

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    Attribution:

    Podcast Title: Explain Podcast

    Creators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel Rickert

    Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/⁠

    49 min
  • E9: Single Cell Sequencing

    Chapters:


    00:00 Gambling

    15:00 Bubbles

    30:00 Holes

    57:30 One more thing

    1:07:00 Finale

    1:08:00 Finale of season 1!



    Eric Chow explaining single cell sequencing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9VFNLLQP8c


    Overview of things to consider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUPKrnRvoQ


    How to analyze single cell data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HBzgsz8qyk


    A very good single cell analysis toolkit: https://satijalab.org/seurat/


    Explainer for the rough workflow:https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/articles/understanding-single-cell-sequencing-how-it-works-and-its-applications-357578


    Quick explainer on single cell sequencing:https://www.the-scientist.com/single-cell-sequencing-in-a-nutshell-71048


    A method-overview paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s12276-020-00499-2


    Comparing BD Parse and 10xGenomics: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33414681/


    Pseudotime analysis: https://bioconductor.org/books/3.14/OSCA.advanced/trajectory-analysis.html


    Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany.

    Listen to our podcast and send your feedback to ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ).

    The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).


    PS: I do not know how in the Parse approach the cells are treated to let the ligase and DNA enter each cell, but do not let RNA flow out of the cell at the same time. -DR

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    Attribution:

    Podcast Title: Explain Podcast

    Creators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel Rickert

    Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/⁠

    1 hr 11 min
  • Special: PhiX / UMIs / QC

    Getting the most out of Machines


    Chapters:

    00:00 PhiX

    14:30 low complexity

    19:30 UMIs

    32:10 FastQC

    43:00 MultiQC

    56:40 PycoQC


    PhiX concentrations for loading a validation run:https://knowledge.illumina.com/instrumentation/general/instrumentation-general-reference_material-list/000001536


    Dnatech on why UMIs are used:https://dnatech.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/faqs/what-are-umis-and-why-are-they-used-in-high-throughput-sequencing/


    BMH learning on UMIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPMsnhIBK0


    FastQC for QC of .fastq(.gz) files:https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/


    A FastQC report from a „good“ sample:https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/good_sequence_short_fastqc.html


    multiqc for summarizing QC reports: https://multiqc.info/


    UMI-tools for working with UMI data: https://umi-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/


    pycoQC for Nanopore QC: https://github.com/a-slide/pycoQC


    Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/)operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supportsresearch in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise andsequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/)- network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email (podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ).


    The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor atHeinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).

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    Attribution:

    Podcast Title: Explain Podcast

    Creators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel Rickert

    Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/⁠

    1 hr 11 min
  • E8: Nanopore

    Pushing spaghetti through holes


    Chapers:

    00:00 Intro

    11:15 Measuring Ions

    17:00 Quality

    23:00 Duplex

    24:30 MinION

    25:15 PromethION

    28:20 Methylation

    29:00 Direct RNA sequencing

    38:25 Basecalling

    46:00 Basecalling bias

    53:50 Sequencing proteins


    - Nanopore explainer: https://nanoporetech.com/applications/dna-nanopore-sequencing


    - Oxsci explaining the technology:https://oxsci.org/pore-over-this-advances-in-dna-sequencing/


    - History of Nanopore:https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/science/summary/nanopore/nanopore-sequencing-makes-it-possible-to-decode-the


    - Shmou’s Biology explaining Nanopore sequencing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlluAjhzXqI


    - A direct comparison of Nanopore and Illumina output:https://medresearch.umich.edu/office-research/about-office-research/biomedical-research-core-facilities/advanced-genomics-core/technologies/next-generation-sequencing


    - A nice Nanopore QC tool we use: https://hpc.nih.gov/apps/pycoQC.html


    - How a MinION looks like:https://www.whatech.com/og/markets-research/medical/658327-global-nanopore-sequencing-market-2020


    Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/)operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supportsresearch in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise andsequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/)- network of NGS core facilities in Germany.

    Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ).

    The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/).

    Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomicsfacility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG(https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).

    License Notice

    This podcast including all episodes, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a ⁠⁠⁠Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License⁠⁠⁠.You are free to share, remix, and use this content as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

    Attribution:

    Podcast Title: Explain Podcast

    Creators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel Rickert

    Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/⁠

    57 min
  • E7: PacBio

    Zipping rounds in zeptoliters


    Chapters:

    00:00 Intro

    07:00 Laser

    09:00 Zeptoliters

    13:30 Polymerase speed

    19:00 Error rate

    22:00 SMRT Cell

    25:45 ccs

    30:00 Fragment size

    34:30 Megaruptor

    38:20 Data flow

    47:00 SVs

    53:00 MAS Seq


    - Starter: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-021-00824-3


    - Karobben on PacBio sequencing: https://karobben.github.io/2023/10/30/Bioinfor/PacBio/


    - bioinformticamente explaining the technology:https://bioinformaticamente.com/2020/12/05/pacbio-sequencing/


    - Basic Biochem explainer of SMRT sequencing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2gUmRf-K1c


    - Genomics Lab explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRhUSjhygDU


    - PacBio explaining BAM Tags: https://pacbiofileformats.readthedocs.io/en/13.0/BAM.html


    - Megaruptor3 explainer (how we make the right sized fragments) :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVhqnkQL8zo


    - How we select the right sized fragments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25C8xfBbq8



    Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/)operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supportsresearch in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise andsequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/)- network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and we're happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email (podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ).


    The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/).

    Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomicsfacility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG(https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).

    License Notice

    This podcast including all episodes, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a ⁠⁠⁠Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License⁠⁠⁠.You are free to share, remix, and use this content as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

    Attribution:

    Podcast Title: Explain Podcast

    Creators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel Rickert

    Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/⁠

    57 min

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The Podcast Explain is for everyone interested in DNA/RNA sequencing or technology in general. As Iuliia doesn't have a solid background in sequencing, she keeps asking "simple" - even silly at times…